The following is a guest post by Alan Hicks. Before the Protestant Reformation only clergy and highly educated people had access to the Scriptures because they were written in Latin, a language that most people at that time no longer understood. Therefore the masses depended on the Roman Catholic Church (really the only church around) […]
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Reading the Bible Prayerfully
A few weeks ago, I began a series of posts on how to read the Bible. The first two posts discussed reading the Bible consistently and contextually. In this post, I wanted to address how we can read the Bible prayerfully. Reading the Bible prayerfully is not a complicated concept. It just means that when […]
Recovering the Hymns
Recently, I took a team of teenagers on a mission trip to Baltimore, MD. During this week, I got to spend time with the teens from my church and get to know them. Two of them really enjoyed talking about music so I shared some of my own musical interests. I shared one song in […]
Reading the Bible Contextually
Recently, I started a series on the question, “how do you read the Bible?” You can read the first post here. In this post, I want to cover the topic of reading the Bible contextually. What is Context? In simplified terms, context is just the words around the words. It is the setting in which […]
Challies on Personal Bible Study
Tim Challies has an excellent article that succinctly considers the question of why Christians should read the Bible. He makes the excellent point that there is no explicit verse that commands Christians to read the Bible on a daily basis. So why do we do it? Here’s an excerpt: When I think about the area […]